This essay will explore Tina Beattie’s “The New Atheists: The Twilight of Reason and the War on Religion” with particular focus on Chapter 7 ‘Kitsch, Terror and the Postmodern Condition’. The major concepts Beattie explores within this chapter will be compared and contrasted with three other scholarly articles by Bouma, Armstrong and Aldridge. The essay will provide an understanding of the differences and similarities expounded by these authors as well as a critical analysis of the arguments they
which effectively substantiates the utilization of human sacrifice in ancient Israel, passing things on from the physical human realm to the divine spiritual one. This process is a transformative one, and is one of the most common ways that things were transformed in the Hebrew bible. To destroy it (burn it/eliminate it’s physical body) meant to remove it from this realm and place it in the next (as, previously stated). Leviticus 1:13 states that the smoke of the burning from a sacrifice was a “pleasing
Chapter 2 The Anthropology of St. Bonaventure Before moving to the main argument of this thesis which is the ethical dimension of St. Bonaventure’s Itinerarium Mentis in Deum, the researcher first of all wants to dwell on the anthropology of the philosopher. What is man? This question is essential for it speaks of the true nature of man and this question points basically to its true source? In order to have a better grasp of the groundings of his argument one must first have a good grasp of what
is one of the most powerful and popular spirits in the African cultures. She is portrayed as a light skinned mermaid, beautiful and exotic, and is described as “…at once a nurturing mother; sexy mama; provider of riches; healer of physical and spiritual ills; and embodiment of dangers and desires, risks and challenges, dreams and aspirations, fears and forebodings." Mami Wata is honored through many art forms, glass paintings, masks, and the most popular form, sculptures. Since the day she was
Introduction – the Earth The Earth, with her landmasses, water bodies, mountains, valleys, plains, swamps, grass lands, forests is not just the planet that we live in. The Earth is the basis of our existence, the root of our being. There are no us without the Earth. All cultures recognized the importance of Earth for the sustenance of human life, and thus in every cultural system, we see an ardent reverence and worship of Earth as a life giver, and preserver, even destroyer and thus a creator of
Buddhist philosophical concepts of material impermanence, human suffering (dukkha), and the unification of the spiritual self with the cosmos, appear throughout. These concepts also appear in the written words of Zen practitioners, whose poetry provides a window into the deeper Buddhist significance of the text. Buddhist doctrine begins with the diagnosis and cure of humanity's suffering via the Four Noble Truths. The First truth holds that life is suffering, or dukkha. The Second Truth indicates that the
CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study. In every community in the world, there exists a uniqueness that makes one part of the world different from the world. This can be seen in the way people live, there different landform and weather/climate differences but one key element that is common to every country is what we refer to as culture. Culture has been described by various anthropologists in different ways but with common elements that have peculiarity to every definition